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" more regularly than the haud ; and you 

 ' fave half the quantity of feed. I am lure, 

 " I have not lefs than one hundred acres of 

 " drilled fainfoin. Some of it in rows at one 

 " foot, and the reft at half a foot di fiance. 

 " The greateft quantity I ever fovv is three 

 " bumels to an acre. The leaft, and which 

 " I generally fow, is one bufliel and ail 

 ** half to an acre. . I have many fields, where 

 *' the plants are quite regular, and ftand 

 " as thick as one- would wi(h, producing very 

 ". good crops. 



*' I have feveral thoufand acres on the 

 " wolds, that do not let for a {hilling each 

 * acre. The foil is generally dry, fhallow, 

 ' and fioney. This, after being reduced to 

 " fine tilth, by repeated ploughings, and 

 " nanured by the fold of a large flock of 

 " Cheep, which I keep for that purpofe, has 

 " been gradually and fucceffively laid down 

 " with ail the various kinds of grafs-feeds in 

 " common ufe ; the principal of thele are 

 " fainfoin, and all the clovers, burnet, tre- 

 <c foils, lucerne, rye-grafs, rib-grafe, and corn- 

 mon hay-feeds; of all thefe, iainfoin has 

 *' made the moft general and greateft im- 

 *' provement. This plant, whilft grow- 

 '* ing, is grateful to all kinds of cattle ; 

 " and the hay is excellent. The produce 

 **. from this land is, in a good year, about a 

 " ton to an acre, taking the whole crop of a 

 " large field together. It is true, I have had 



" three 



